More procurement reform would allow Ottawa businesses to help shape our city

In all the recent talk of trade wars, tariffs and buying Canadian, I didn’t expect procurement to feature prominently. I couldn’t be more pleased to…

March 20, 2025

Building the City We Aspire To Be

Ottawa is facing many challenges: we need more housing that achieves better sustainable density to create homes for families and support small businesses for a…

March 4, 2025

Small firms are being unfairly shut out of the federal home-building program

The federal government has made some bold moves to try and solve the housing crisis, including opening public land and surplus federal buildings to off-market…

January 10, 2025

Being The City We Aspire To Be

Ottawa is a unique place. We are a city of a million people and growing. We are the capital of a G7 country and, as…

December 14, 2024

Toon: Ambitious plan for south side of Wellington Street shows how building design should be done

Ottawa is poised to see another major investment from the federal government, making a commitment to jobs, infrastructure and quality architecture in the heart of…

October 22, 2024

Canadian cities need a new model and the national capital is a prime example

More than 80 per cent of Canada’s 41 million people live in a city, more than double from a hundred years ago, yet the way…

September 30, 2024